Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semlAveekly during the College year, except on hallanfs, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the Interest of the College. the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. IM=l CHARLES A. MYERS '3l FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34 Editor Business 3lanager GEORGE A. SCOTT 'l4 HAROLD N. BATSCII '34 Managing Editor Circulation Manager WILLIAM M. STECMEIER '34 11. EDGAR FURMAN '34 Sports Editor Local Advertising Manager BERNARD 11. ROSENZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34 News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager JAMES H. SHEEN 34 FRANCIS WACKER '34 News Editor Classified Advertising 3lanagc RUTH M. HARMON '3l MAE P. KAI'LAN '34 Women's Editor Women's Managing Editor EVA M. lILICIIFELDT '34 • Women's News Editor James B. Beatty Jr. 'II John A. Brulannan MI 'Phillip I .F. Fair Ir. A. Conrail Mtge" '33 Kenneth C. Hoffman '35 Burton Bowles Jr. '3 amen K. Watson jr. '35 Fred W. Wright $5 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Cl= John J. slnthewn •95 Georg., A. Rutledge '35 Enrl C. Kuno jr. '35 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Malvin B. Daniel '3 F.leie M. Dauthett '35 Margaret W. It inelne 313 Old Main Editorial Office__ Nittany Printing Building Business Office_ Phone 292• W FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933 EXIT: THE SENIOR There was a time when commencement speakers told seniors that the world was waiting for them with open arms. It was true 'then. The campus potentates, the honor roll ram bad their choice of - three or four jobs. The system which had raised the world to "the highest standard of living ever aeieved by man" always had room for a few more with diplomas. A college educa- tion was considered a lease on a life-time position. For the 1933 senior there are no such prospects Pour years of academic preparation have prepared him for what? The ranks of the unemployed. Four years of dances, petty politics, fraternity life, and hectic week ends have prepared him for what? Probably a distorted view of things in general. The "No Help Wanted" sign which seems too far distant to concern the junior, the sophomore, and the freshman, appears a little more realistic to the senior. It comes like a cold shower, after four years of collegiate slumber. Unless lie is still immersed in the complacent at mosphere of college life, the senior begins to see that his old beliefs rest on sand. A faith in the infallibility of captains of industry, congressmen and educators has been considerably weakened. Some of the business barons who were gods in 1929 are stuffed shirts in 1933. Tho nearly-perfect economic order has proved to be a highly imperfect disorder. If prosperity is around this corner, another depression is around the next. Democracy has failed to solve the problem and three countries have turned to dictatorship with little more What hope is there for the senior amid- all this gloom? Can he be assured that opportunity is waiting for him when he sees that she has not even knocked once on the doors of thousands like bim? Can his feel ing of hopelessness be assuaged by the thought that he is standing at the beginning of a new, era, and that he will help in forming, its institutions? Is the spirit that motivated his ancestors going to spur on the modern student pioneer? Perhaps so, if he has vision, courage —and a job. Definite conclusions are difficult to make when everything else seems so indefinite. Meanwhile, the 1933 senior goes out, armed with a diploma, a few College honors, and a conviction that luck will favor him eventually. . WITH, THE CARTMELL CASE definitely settled by tiv3 executive committee of the Board of Trustees, the committee appointed by Student Board to investigate the situation could do little but consider the matter closed. However, the student group has given assurance that it will investigate the system of intramural ath letics as conducted at the present time. This is prompt ed by the belief that students here are not entirely satis fied with the program which is supposed to be for their benefit alone. An unofficial poll made by the COLLEGIAN shows that this belief has some foundation. More facts brought to the attention of the student body and the administration by the committee will do much to effect a satisfactory readjustment of the program. • TIIE INFORMED STUDENT'S discussion of war in the last issue has called forth a host of protests from the other side, judging by letters on the subject in to day's Letter Box. None of these agrees 'with the In formed Student. Just how representative they are of general student opinion is a question, but at least the replies are encouraging. They show that there are some students here who have been thinking in terms different than those which have duped the youth of the world for so long. THE FACT THAT A MAJORITY of the seniors interviewed in a COLLEGIAN questionnaire are in favor of the present editorial policy is gratifying to the staff. Confronted at the ascendency to responsibility with charges of "stodgy student press;' this staff has at tempted in the last month to appear a little less stodgy. Whether or not it has succeeded in doing so is left to the opinion of the readers. Editorial policy in the future, as in the past, will consist of a questioning attitude on all student problems, followed by investigation and an attempt at correct 'interpretation. No claim will be made for infallibility. To make the paper an organ of student opinion and a means of guiding that opinion for the best interests of the students and their College will be the aim of the paper in the year to come. Verily ; it has conic to pass that a professor has forgotten the (lay of a final examination. Various and sundry students slunk into a room in Mineral In dustries Wednesday morning expecting to be rocked by a stiff Geology 71 final. For an hour anxious glances strayed toward the door, but no one showed up, and finally the bewildered class decided that it had been hoaxed. That same afternoon two of the geolo gists chanced upon Dec Robinson and asked an ex planation. Dazed, the professor replied that he thought the examination was scheduled for Thursday morning. Now last minute cramming has gone for nought, for the test has been called off. I=l The Maniac is wrong. At least that is what a postal card which now rests in mail box states.. Since our esteemed compatriot has gone into hiding for the summer, we are taking it on ourself to run the note in this colyum. Th.a high standard of phrasing will explain itself. "To a Maniac, who will he maimed if he does not make it clear that it was Betty Shoemaker who strolled down Allen Street with Mechesney. "I hate to be accuszd for things in which I have not had the pleasure to participate." My dear Fern, don't misunderstand us. If you will kindly peruse the last issue of Old Mania, you will seo that the name Shoemaker was mentioned in that connection without the addition of a first monicker. Add Simile: As busy as Pete Brandt saying hello between changing classes. Tho daring girls at Faust's have struck on a good plan for getting out of the house after Old Main has tolled the deadline hour. One of them makes an ex cuse of going downstairs to pick up a forgotten hook, and announces that fact to the chaperone. But after she has slipped by the matron's door, another girl falls into exact step with her as they walk down the stairs. - Then, while the first co-cd gets the book and starts upstairs, the guilty one slips out the door. All of which Shows a great deal of ingenuity. For three years we've wandered about this campus and just recently found out what an immense neces sity the Education School is to the students. Psych Hartmann went to the trouble - of 'figuring out the astounding - fact that co-eds in the home economics curriculum who arc specializing in clothing average 'one 'hundred and eighteen pounds in, weight while those studying foods average one hundred and thirty-seven pounds. It carries very little weight with us. All during the winter screen doors remainer se curely on the Dairy building. With the coming of summer hunume ag profs had the screens removed Ito let the poor flies out of captivity. Johnny McAndrews and Ruth Bartels stepping out . . .. Dick Leib returns to town for a week or two .... and has a few seers taken out of his sail ....Enid Stage cleans up with a mouse museum .... 'Pi Kappa Phi's Bildstein receives a letter this week ; re-addressed from the State Pen .... Waller's crim inology class discovers a copy of , the Alumni News at the same iron4mrred institution This is our last chance at the Column for the year . So here's a wild, summer to you Gifts • for Graduation Fountain Pens Brief Cases Penn State Seal Jewelry Portable Typewriters Leather Bound Fiction Penn State Pups Penn State Pennants THE Athletic Store Inc. • ON CO-OP CORNER CA MP USEER IZMIR] Sincerely yours, FERN Shoemaker IMIZI rEZZEZI I=ZEZ:I THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Looking Over The News A book fell into our hands recently which in .its sheer audacity in ex posing the unprincipled methods of tho financial giants of the country, has not often been equalled. After reading "Upton Sinclair Presents Wil liam Pox" wo became vividly aware of the power that the present economic system has placed in the hands of the money interests fcir arranging the destinies of the masses. An open cry for the governmental regulation of industry, Upton Sin clair's book attacks the present system through the living names of Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Bernard Baruch, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Al bert H. Wiggin and others. The book very nicely fits in with our present thoughts- on high finance, as we read in the same instance of the "preferred lists" and "inside stock deals," now be ing exposed by'the Senate inquiry into the J. P. Morgan interests. Under the clever handling of Fer dinand Pecora, head of the Senate Banking Committee investigation in the affairs of J. P. Morgan and Co., there is being brought to light a shocking picture showing the vast hold of the famed international banking firm upon members in the highest posts of our national government. In Wednesday's testimony it was disclosed that among those favored by being allowed to purchase large blocks of stock at twenty dolalrs a share while the market price was thirty seven dollars, were Secretary of Treasurer Mloodin, Supreme Court Justice Roberts. Senator McAdoo, John J. Raskob, Newton D. Baker, and others. Norman H. Davis, President Roosevelt's ambassador-at-large in Europe at present is owing the Mor gan interests 'a largo sum. It was also disclosed that none of the Morgan partners had paid income taxes since 1931 to the United States, while taxes had been paid in Great Now To AVOID BONERS MONOTONY IS THE. CUSTOM OF HAVING ONLY ONE. WIFE HEAVEN have pity on the poor lad! ne also thinks a parapet is a tropic4:lrd... - But where elhere i s life there's hope. If somebody will introduce Billßoner to a good pipe and good tobacco, per haps he'll improve. 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Edgeworth is available everywhere EDGEORTH SMOKING TOBACCO OUR HOUSEPARTY DATE and , • • OMMENCEMENT GUESTS., • will enjoy • • George Bernard Shaw's "The •, ,• • , " D 6 11 , s Disciple presented by THE • Pe i n State Players Sa rday and Monday, June 3 and •, 7:30 O'clock—Auditorium Tickets 50 Cents On Sal easurer's Office, Beginning Monday, May 29- : Co er Room=Next Thursday and Friday to 9 p. m.—All Saturday Afternoon The Letter Box (Because of the large number of letters in this last issue, several of the longer ones have been edited to meet the demands of limited space.) To the Editor: Informed Student's letter anent militarism must indeed come as a comfort to future parents whose atti tude toward militarism is very likely .determined more by their visiosn of the ultimate destiny of their immedi ate descendants than by any more noble sentiment. At any rate they can rest assured that their children will not be exterminated by new= fangled scientific lethal devices, but Britain. With such connections upon high individuals of the government the influence and power exerted by the Morgan bankers must reach propor tions too great to satisfy President Roosevelt that the "money changers arc driven from the temple." With Norman H. Davis' speech be fore the Geneva disarmament confer ence the United States took the po sition of being willingto.enter into a consultative pact and drop its long policy of isolation. He announced that Washington would abandon neu trality to defend another country against an aggressive nation. If a nation is guilty of aggression the United States, in effect, agrees to ab- stain from all action to black a col lective effort by the nations to restore peace. If the differences between the na tions are to be dealt with in an un military and peaceful manner,,the co operation of the United States is necessary to bring a guilty nation into line through economic methods. Then again if the nations ore to disarm, the influence of the United States will go far to ease the tension in Europe, by, pledging its support in keeping secure the boundaries and treaties' after the coming World conference. Therefore, let Our nationalistic objectors broaden their views in order that weanay take an important step in achieving the international coordination so neces sary for peace. -B. H. R ~Ze4 Pt2q4 s will have to content themselme with the customary bloody deaths of their ancestors. What was good enough for them is good enough for us. It makes all the difference in the world, doesn't it? To the Editor The letter in Tuesday's COLLEGIAN on the mildness of the next war spurs me to hurry this letter which I would have written anyway .. . Every war has an origin; they do not "come," as Informed Student re signedly -assumes. It is because our diplomats and those of other nations have the privilege of thinking in terms of the number of men and ma chines they can mobilize and the prop aganda they can spread, instead of in terms of arbitration of difficulties, that wars come. That privilege we must strive 'to deprive them of by building up throughout. the world a powerful anti-war sentiment among those who have to do the killing. and dying. When the next war "comes" In formed Student will believe that he is fighting for a righteous cause, that the enemy is only a bunch of villains trying to undermine our institutions. He will forget our Mexican and'Span ish-American wars, our invasion of Nicaragua, our Cuban and Philippine policies, and even the way in 'which we made the world, safe for democ cracy. Or has he only read the Sat urday Evening Post version of these? He'll be there with bells on. Well, somebody will be there to ring them. And let him realize that many of his buddies will have thought about these things; and will wonder why they are being forced to die. Perhaps their numbers will be great enough so that their collective protests must be list ened to. PAUL L. Fox '33 * * * To the Editor Friends of peace and international cooperation on the Penn State campus are 'grateful to the present editorial We Will Open To Accommodate Summer School Students Room $2.50 Regular Board $6.00 Also 25c, 35c,,and 49c - s. 'PLATTERS Locust Lane ' • Sandwich Shop Old Main Art Shop Extends Congratulations and Best Wishes To the Student Body Your Cap and - Gown Photos "Some One Wants • Yonr Photograph" • The Penn State Photo Shop 212 East College Avenue State College, Pa. i . REA 11,, DERICK, In,l'. Next to the Corner . . "Where Spending Is Saving " . ' • . • DENTAL AIDS." 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Friday, May 26, 19 staff of the ' , ,COLLEGIAN for its liberal and courageous stand on a ,construc tive and modern peace attitude. The antiquiated idea that prepara- - tion for war either prepares for peace or prevents war is "out the window," and we believe that the majority of students and :faculty at Penn State support your position. GEORGE W. GOODLEY '33 * To the Editor As a pacifist I wish to express my. appreciation for [the clear challenge presented to all Moral thinking stu dents in your recent editorial. In rem sponse, may I take issue with our "Informed Student" ' Fundamentally, the pacifist does not brise hid belief on spieculative pictures• of the nature of future conflicts.. His position, howe,ver, is built, on the facts that no nation can win a modern war, that no 'problem can be settled by modern war, that war is' fought not for a.nation but for a sel fish, unscrupulous few, that war breeds and enhances problems, and Paves the way for future conflicts.: (Continued on pagy four) .• .Ve..414 (Matinee I:3o—Evening Opening 6:30 Complete Late Showing After 9 I'. M.). FRIDAY- Janet Gaynor, Henry Garat In "ADORABLE" , IMMMI James Dunn, Sally Eilers . "HOLD ME TIGHT" MONDAY and TUESDAY— It's Glorious •" _ John Barrymore in ' . • "REUNION IN VIENNA" With Diana Wynyard • WEDNESDAY— Robert Montgomery, Sally Ellen "MADE ON BROADWAY" •. THURSDAY- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in .1 "THE LIFE OF JIMMY.DOLAN",:- .NITTANY FRIDAY- "ADORABLE" SATURDAY- . "THE EAGLE AND THE HASVK"• TUESDAY "WARRIOR'S HUSBAND" WEDNESDAY "THE WORKING MAN"
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